 Outside Viet Sam restaurant, the restaurant owner motions for his daughter to join him for lunch. |  Worshippers in ISKCON Temple, New Delhi celebrate Krishna Day, held on Sundays. |  “Whether is not in my vocabulary. HOW we will make this happen.” Rachna Dushyant Singh, founder of ANKURI is a fountain of energy, devoted to making it possible for the women in her village to be financially independent while entrapped in the social structures enforced in their families by traditional societal expectations. Earning from craft making gives them the freedom to break away from these expectations, as she has. |
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 University of Michigan Art & Design senior Doo Kim poses for a portrait with her integrative project thesis on April 15th, 2016. Her project brought together her interest in Korean temple architecture and lines to explore their interaction. |  Security guard Ed Bean of Flint, Michigan poses for a portrait in the entryway of Saints of God Church following a service on April 3rd, 2016. |  Lily Nichols, 5, was murdered in a drive-by shooting while in the back of her car with her mother on July 7th. Lily's friends care for the memorial flowers outside Lily's house at the neighborhood block party celebrating Lily's life. The girls said they used to roll down the hill with Lily. |
 A grocery shopper at Barbès Rochechouart market during an early morning July 6th, 2016. |  “After leaving my husband due to domestic violence three months ago I started working with ANKURI in order to support my five year-old daughter, Tanishka. I needed to be independent and stand on my own feet and earn a little bit.” As her daughter, Tanishka, smiles and darts around the room, Babita explains that she married for love. “He was in a lower caste but my parents still supported my decision and got us married.” |  MSU student Myka Hall and her girlfriend University of Michigan student Estie Ward embrace at the Izzone Campout at MSU. |
 Dance group Filmi performs at the annual Indian American Student Association Culure Show on November 11th, 2016. |  Professor Duffy stands for a portrait in the basement of the soon to be renovated UM Museum of Natural History with her daphnia samples. |  Students at a local government school in Thikana present woven reeds to the guests of their annual school show. The students presented skits of what they had learned and traditional dances. |
 Max Bielfeldt takes a fall to defensive players during the game between Michigan and Northwestern on Jan. 17th, 2015. Michigan won 56-54. |  Market Shoe Repair's Moe Draper, his daughter, and dog serve customers at their shoe shining booth at Eastern Market in Detroit. |  A barber works from his make-shift shop in downtown Jaipur. |
 De'Veon Smith celebrates after his second of three touchdowns of the game. The Wolverines beat Oregon State University 35-7 in Coach Jim Harbaugh's first home game. |  A boy flips fresh chapatis off the conveyor belt. Traditionally, all the bread was made by hand but recently they have supplemented mechanical methods. Langar is a meal served to others to preform seva (community service to man and god). The Golden Temple serves langar to those of all faiths, every day of the year, twenty-two hours a day. |  A dance team from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne performs at A2 Dhoom, an Indian dance competition that welcomed school teams from around the nation. |
 President Barack Obama addresses students at Macomb Community College in Warren Michigan on Wednesday. He speaks about the importance of educating America. Public, free, access to two years of community college, he says, is a way to start. |  LSA senior Dominique Green performs with Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. at the Midnight Madness Step Show on October 4th, 2014. |  A family gathers outside of the ancient mausoleum of Mumtaz Mahal facing the mosque on the Taj Mahal complex. |
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